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You’ll now find a QR code on the right side of each record in the InfoKat database. Users can simply scan the code and receive, “significant details for locating the book in the Libraries’ collections and the descriptive information of the item (e.g., title, author, publisher).” Here are a couple of records from InfoKat. 1 […]
From The Bookseller: More people aged over 55 own e-readers than the younger generation, according to a new study on digital reading habits. Data released by research company OnePoll shows 6% of readers in the over-55 category–equivalent to 500,000 people–own a digital device to consume literature in comparison to just 5% of those aged 18–24. […]
As many of you have probably heard by now Borders Books filed for bankruptcy (Chapter 11) today. In addition to a couple of overview articles at the bottom of this post, here are links to a new web site and several documents: Borders Reorganization Web Site Some of the Material Online as of Today + […]
From the Muse News (February, 2011) MUSE just added back issues for six more titles. Five of the six now have their complete run in MUSE, meaning that subscribers to those titles have access to Vol. 1, iss. /no. 1 through the most recent issue of the journal. All archival content is made available to […]
Recently Released: The AFRO-American Newspapers Online Archive, Over One Million Articles Available (Free)
Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, News, Publishing, Resources
|From an AFRO-American Newspapers Announcement: The AFRO-American Newspapers, one of the nation’s oldest news organizations dedicated to covering the African American community, has created a comprehensive collection of over a million articles that captures the African American experience in business, civil rights, education, health, law, and sports beginning in the late 19th century. Google partnered […]
The Tools of Change for Publishing Conference is taking place this week in NYC and on Tuesday, Ingram’s CEO, Skip Prichard, spoke at the event. What is the conference all about? Driven by the Internet, technology is fundamentally transforming publishing. Creation, development, production, distribution, and consumption have all been touched by the changes and challenges […]
From the NY Times Arts Beat Blog: This week’s Book Review introduces revamped best-seller lists, the result of many months of planning, research and design. On the Web, there are three entirely new lists. One consists of rankings for fiction and nonfiction that combine print and e-book sales; one is limited exclusively to e-book sales […]
From the Electronic Resources Online Blog: ELO is excited to announce the publication of its 2nd collection of electronic literature. With its wide ranging forms, Volume 2 picks up where ELC1left off, offering a diverse anthology of works from an international group of authors in a variety of languages and forms. [Clip] The new collection […]
"Scholars Favor Open-Access Journals, but Some Say Quality and Fees Are Concerns"
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Funding, Libraries, Open Access, Publishing
|From the Chronicle of Higher Education: A new survey of nearly 40,000 scholars across the natural sciences, humanities, and social sciences shows that almost 90 percent of them believe open-access journals are good for the research community and the individual researcher. But charges for publishing and the perception that open-access journals are of lower quality […]